The volcanic eruption that ravaged Pompeii in year 79 is one of the most famous in history. It is known how its victims died, but how did they live? A new insight into the lives of the people who lived in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius before its cataclysmic eruption.

Titus Andronicus returns from the wars and sees his sons and daughters taken from him, one by one. S...

The devious general Cethegus plays the Byzantine and Gothic forces against each other for his own ga...

A series of bawdy and satirical episodes written during the reign of the emperor Nero and set in imp...
On the 8th September 1943, thousands of allied prisoners of war escaped into the Italian countryside...

Rome chafes under the rule of the Emperor Domitian and his Egyptian mistress, Artamne. A mysterious ...

In 19th-century Italy, Giacomo Leopardi channels his debilitating illness and isolation into poetry.

An enormous shroud of white cement covers a hillside in the remote of western Sicily. It is both lan...

Terry Jones' Barbarians is a 4-part TV documentary series first broadcast on BBC 2 in 2006. It was w...

When two brothers are forced to fight in the Korean War, the elder decides to take the riskiest miss...

After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lyg...

Amanda Knox served four years in an Italian prison for the murder of her British flatmate Meredith K...

A documentary that uncovers the careers of a population of entertainers never heard from before: Bla...

In 1872, in the cave of Cavillon in Monaco, archaeologist Émile Rivière (1835-1922) unearthed an app...

Casanova, a young patriot in 18th-century Sicily, upon learning that his father and sister have been...

A docu-film that traces the victorious ride of Mancini's Azzurri, from the debut match to the final ...

The Kush Empire was an ancient superpower that dominated the Nile Valley and rivaled the Egyptians, ...

At the turn of the sixteenth century, Michelangelo (Mark Frankel), Raphael (Andrea Prodan), and Leon...